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Commercial weekly highlights—15 March 2018

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Published on: 15 March 2018

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Table of contents

Spring statement
Spring Statement 2018—Tax analysis
Contracts
UKSC—misrepresentation and third parties, Caparo explained (Steel and another v NRAM Ltd (formerly NRAM plc) (Scotland))
Brussels I (recast) and ‘after the dispute has arisen’ (Yukos International UK BV and others v Merinson)
Confidential information
Protecting against the exploitation of confidential information (Corbiere Ltd v Xu)
Data protection basics
How the European Economic Area plans to implement the GDPR
How short form agreements involving data sharing between controllers should adapt to the GDPR

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Article summary

This week’s edition of Commercial weekly highlights includes the Spring Statement 2018, information about how the GDPR should be reflected in short form agreements and an analysis of the cases of Yukos International UK BV and others v Merinson and Visser Vastgoed Beleggingen BV v Raad van de gemeente Appingedam.

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